Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-07
State AFFAIRS.
The Twentieth Legislature Not Dis
counted for Good Qualities by
Any Comparisons,
The Visiting Committees OF The TWs
Houses Set 0ut for Bryan. Hemp
stead and Huntsville.
BUit; thu senate and EOuse Pass Local II
hsf Measures in Regard 10 tho
Payment Of Faxes.
HARD WORKERS

special 70 the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX March 6.-Both houses
, Of the Legislature are holding two ses-
sions per day, and working like beavers
in their efforts to give proper considera-
ton to the large number OF bills that
have accumulated.
Bills of q local nature are rarely ever
discussed at any length, and are general
ly passed or d. feated in brief order
The more important measures, such as
the railroad commission bill, land bill,
school bill and general appropriation bill,
are receiving that careful consideration
and close scrutiny that their importance
demands.
The committees are doing their work
nobly, and by wise recommendations in
the brief reports attached to each bill sent
them for consideration, have been most
| potent factor in solving the knOttY prob
! lens that have come before the Legisla-
ture.
Aside from any criticisms or attempts
to fatter the Twentieth Legislature,
either by condemning or coudoning
their acts, according TO the particular
views of reporters, editors or newspaper
correspondents, who may have motives
OF self interest, financial or otherwise, for
the tone Of their publications or the one
hand, or q desire to ingratiate
themselves by an undue praise,
commentator and fi4ttery of
representative body of the people on the
| other hand. THE, GAZETTE reporter, bas-
! ing his utterances upon the observations
| Of the citizens of Austin, and visitors
! WHO have witnessed the deliberations of
tile law makers OF the state for half Il
century past, can safely say without
any diSparagement to former bodies,
that the Twentieth Legislature will com
pare favorably with them in points of IN
| teilfgence, industry and sOhriety, the
criticisms to the contrary notw.thstand-
| ing. 1t is true that some of these men
! have the hOrney hands of the sons OF the
| soil, fresh from the people who believed in
! their honesty and ability to repre-
sent heir best interests for them.
1t is equally true that some of them do
not don the silk tie, put or the regulation
collar and carry cane. Nevertheless,
they are here to represent their people
| if not in style certainly in earneSr, and if
their personal appearance comes not up
to standards or precedents it may
| be their misfortune, and should not
! be made the. object of either
newspaper comment or riGicuie, for it is
nor only reflection on the members
themselves but an insult to the people
who sent them. THE GAZETTE reporter
| says this much without hope of reward
| or fear of punishment.
! AN AMENDMENT THAT WAS LOST.
! During the discussion on the House
| school bill an amendment was offered to
change the scholastic ages from eight
and sixteen, to seven and eighteen
| Those opposing the amendment held that
eight years was young enough for chill
dren to begin going to school, and SIN
| teen years long enough for them to be
educated at the states expense.
DEVOTED TO LOCAL BILLS.
Both Houses seem by common consent
to make Saturdays an especial time for
attending to local matters. Probably this
! is done to accommodate members who 90
| home to spend the Sundays with
tacit understanding that no matters Of
! general Legislation will be taken up.
THE PAYMENT OF TAXES.
The Senate and House both passed re-
lief measures yesterday. In the former
| body q Dill was passed almost unanl-
mously to release Calhoun county from
the payment of taxes, because of the great
destruction of property by the storm that
swept over their territory last year In
the latter about forty counties were IN
cluded IN bill to delay the payment of
taxes until the fall season, when the
farmers had harvested and garnered their
crops. But, as this bill will have to 90
to the Senate for concurrence and may be
defeated, it will not be advisable for the
people to rely upon it, until it becomes
law.
VISITING COMMITTEE.
Messrs. Voorhees,, Fuller and Booth,
and Senator'S Glasscock and Woods, Wis
iting committees Of the two houses,
will go to Bryan and examine
into the condition of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College at that point, and
also investigate the reasons for the re
moval OF General Hardemau by the board.
They will then go to Hampstead to in
speCt the Prairie View colored school and
thence TO Huntsville and examine the
Sam Houston Normal Institute
The House committee left last night
and the Senate committee this morning.
1t is thought that information will be
! gathered Dy the members while at Bryan
to be presented on their return TO the
two houses as to the sdvisabiity Of
| granting the demands of the College to a
part OF the University fund.
SENATOR GLAssCoCK's ROAD ELL.
Senator Glssscock's dill creating the
office Of county superintendent OF roads,
with salary OF not less than $500 nor
more than $500, is somewhat similar to
the road law in OHIO, that has proved
success in that state, giving her q system
of roads second to none, so say those VINO
! Clslm to be posted on road laws.
THE NEW CAPITOL.
! A Senator has introduced bill, which
has been reported favorably by the COM
mittee, to make en- appropriation to
build the two granite porticos omitted
| from the original design, and also to fur
nisn the building and purchase two more
| blocks OF ground on the north side of
the capitol, to form part of the capitol
ground.